List of post-reformation saints in the United Kingdom explained

This page is a list of post-reformation saints, blesseds, venerables, and Servants of God in the United Kingdom, as recognized by the Roman Catholic Church. These people were born, died, or lived their religious life in England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland.

Saints

• John Henry Newman (1801–1890), Priest of the Oratorians (Birmingham Congregation); Cardinal (London – West Midlands, England)
  • Declared "Venerable": 22 January 1991
  • Beatified: 19 September 2010 by Pope Benedict XVI
  • Canonized: 13 October 2019 by Pope Francis

Blesseds

• Domenico Barberi (Dominic of the Mother of God) (1792–1849), Professed Priest of the Passionists (Viterbo, Italy – Berkshire, England)
  • Declared "Venerable": 16 May 1937
  • Beatified: 27 October 1963 by Pope Paul VI
• Michael Iwene Tansi (Cyprian) (1903–1964), Professed Priest of the Trappists (Anambra, Nigeria – Leicestershire, England)
  • Declared "Venerable": 11 July 1995
  • Beatified: 28 March 1998 by Pope John Paul II
• Carlo Acutis (1991–2006), Child of the Archdiocese of Milan (London, England – Milan, Italy)
  • Declared "Venerable": 5 July 2018
  • Beatified: 10 October 2020 by Cardial Agostino Vallini

Venerables

• Margaret Sinclair (Mary Frances of the Five Wounds) (1900–1925), Professed Religious of the Poor Clare Colettine Nuns (Edinburgh, Scotland – Essex, England)
  • Declared "Venerable": 6 February 1978
• Mary Potter (1847–1913), Founder of the Little Company of Mary (London, England – Rome, Italy)
  • Declared "Venerable": 8 February 1988
• Cornelia Connelly (1809–1879), Founder of the Society of the Holy Child Jesus (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – East Sussex, England)
  • Declared "Venerable": 13 June 1992
• Joan Ward (Mary) (1585–1645), Founder of the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Loreto Sisters) and Congregatio Iesu (Yorkshire, England)
  • Declared "Venerable": 19 December 2009
• Bridget Teresa McCrory (Mary Angeline Teresa) (1893–1984), Founder of the Carmelite Sisters for the Aged and Infirm (Tyrone, Northern Ireland – New York, United States)
  • Declared "Venerable": 28 June 2012
• Mary Jane Wilson (Maria of Saint Francis) (1840–1916), Founder of the Franciscan Sisters of Our Lady of Victory (Karnataka, India – Madeira, Portugal)
  • Declared "Venerable": 9 October 2013
• Frances Margaret Taylor (Mary Magdalen of the Sacred Heart) (1832–1900), Founder of the Poor Servants of the Mother of God (Lincolnshire – London, England)
  • Declared "Venerable": 12 June 2014
• Sophia Leeves (Marie–Veronique of the Passion) (1823–1906), Professed Religious of the Discalced Carmelite Nuns; Founder of the Apostolic Carmel (Istanbul, Türkiye – Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France)
  • Declared "Venerable": 8 July 2014
• Elizabeth Prout (Mary Joseph of Jesus) (1820–1864), Founder of the Sisters of the Cross and Passion (Shropshire – Merseyside, England)
  • Declared "Venerable": 21 January 2021
• George Spencer (Ignatius of Saint Paul) (1799–1864), Professed Priest of the Passionists (London, England – South Lanarkshire, Scotland)
  • Declared "Venerable": 20 February 2021
• Florence Kate Flanagan (Maria Caterina) (1892–1941), Professed Religious of the Bridgettine Sisters (London, England – Stockholm, Sweden)
  • Declared "Venerable": 23 March 2023

Servants of God

• James II (VII) Stuart (1633–1701), Married Layperson of the Archdiocese of Westminster; King of England, Scotland and Ireland (London, England – Paris, France)^{[1] [2]}
• Henriette Le Forestier d'Osseville (1803–1858), Founder of the Congregation of Our Lady of Fidelity (Seine-Maritime, France – London, England)
• Margaret Hallahan (1802–1868), Founder of the Dominican Sisters of the English Congregation of Saint Catherine of Siena (London – Staffordshire, England)
• Caroline Jones Chisholm (1808-1877), Married Layperson of the Archdiocese of Canberra-Gourlburn (London – Northamptonshire, England)^[3]
• Teresa Helena Higginson (1844–1905), Layperson of the Archdiocese of Liverpool (Flintshire, Wales – Devonshire, England)
• Mary Janet Erskine Stuart (1857–1914), Professed Religious of the Society of the Religious of the Sacred Heart of Jesus (Rutland – London, England)
• Antonio Mansi (1896–1918), Professed Religious of the Franciscan Conventuals (London, England – Rome, Italy)^[4]
• Marie-Adèle Garnier (Marie of Saint Peter) (1838–1924), Founder of the Benedictine Adorers of the Sacred Heart of Jesus of Montmartre (Tyburn Nuns) and the Benedictines of the Sacred Heart of Montmartre (Côte-d'Or, France – London, England)^[5]
• Artur Schulz (1897–1945), Priest of the Archdiocese of Warmia; Martyr (London, England – Bisztynek, Poland)
• Sybil Kathigasu (1899–1948), Married Layperson of the Diocese of Penang (North Sumatra, Indonesia – South Lanarkshire, Scotland)^[6]
• Clara Rose Perrins (Mary of the Blessed Sacrament) (1875–1949), Founder of the Carmelite Sisters of "Corpus Christi" (Staffordshire, England – Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago)
• Madaleina Catherine Beauchamp Hambrough (Maria Riccarda) (1887–1966), Professed Religious of the Bridgettine Sisters (London, England – Rome, Italy)^[7]
• John Bradburne (1921–1979), Layperson of the Archdiocese of Harare; Member of the Secular Franciscans (Cumbria, England – Mashonaland East, Zimbabwe)^[8]
• Jeremy Joyner White (1938–1990), Layperson of the Personal Prelature of the Holy Cross and Opus Dei (Hampshire, England – Lagos, Nigeria)
• Leonard Cheshire (1917–1992), Married Layperson of the Diocese of East Anglia (Cheshire – Suffolk, England)^[9]
• Julius Kambarage Nyerere (1922–1999), Married Layperson of the Diocese of Musoma; President of Tanzania (Mara, Tanzania – London, England)
• Andrew Bertie (1929–2008), Prince and Grand Master of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta (London, England – Rome, Italy)
• Ignacio Echeverría (1978–2017), Layperson of the Archdiocese of Madrid (A Coruña, Spain – London, England)^[10]

Candidates for Sainthood

This list includes individuals for whom there is a public petition to the bishop to commence an investigation into the heroic virtue of the individual leading to a decree declaring them to be a Servant of God.

• William Roper (c. 1496–1578) and Margaret More Roper (1505–1544), Married Laypersons of the Archdiocese of Westminster (London, England)
• Luisa Carvajal Mendoza (1566–1614), Layperson of the Archdiocese of Westminster (Cáceres, Spain – London, England)
• Andrew White (1579–1656), Professed Priest of the Jesuits (London, England)^[11]
• Margaret Mostyn (rel. name: Margaret of Jesus) (1625–1679), Professed Religious of the Discalced Carmelite Nuns (Flintshire, Wales – Antwerp, Belgium)
• Frances Dickinson (rel. name: Clare Joseph of the Heart of Jesus) (1755–1830), Professed Religious of the Discalced Carmelite Nuns (London, England – Maryland, United States)
• Augustus Pugin (1812–1852), Married Layperson of the Archdiocese of Southwark (London – Ramsgate, England)
• John Talbot, 16th Earl of Shrewsbury (1791–1852), Married Layperson of the Diocese of Shrewsbury (Worcestershire – Shropshire, England)
• Louisa Elizabeth Rolls Vaughan (1810–1853), Married Layperson of the Archdiocese of Cardiff (London – Herefordshire, England)^[12]
• Cecil Chetwynd-Talbot (1808–1877), Married Layperson of the Archdiocese of St Andrews and Edinburgh (Staffordshire, England – Rome, Italy)
• John Bede Polding (1794–1877), Professed Priest of the Benedictines (English Congregation); Archbishop of Sydney; Founder of the Sisters of the Good Samaritan (Liverpool, England – Sydney, Australia)^[13]
• Alice Mary Thorpe (Catherine Mary Antoninus) (1844–1879), Founder of the Dominican Sisters of Our Lady of the Rosary (now the Dominican Sisters of Sparkill) (Norfolk, England – New York, United States)
• Georgiana Fullerton née Leveson-Gower (1812–1885), Married Layperson of the Archdiocese of Westminster; Member of the Secular Franciscans (Staffordshire – Dorset, England)
• Margaret Radclyffe Livingstone Eyre (1800–1889), Married Layperson of the Archdiocese of Westminster (London, England)
• Julian Tenison-Woods (1832-1889), Priest of the Archdiocese of Sydney; Cofounder of the Sisters of Saint Joseph of the Sacred Heart (London, England - Sydney, Australia)
• Alice Ingham (rel. name: Mary Francis) (1830–1890), Founder of the Franciscan Missionaries of Saint Joseph (Greater Manchester – Lancashire, England)
• Sophia Charlotte Adams (rel. name: Mary Rose Columba) (1832–1891), Professed Religious of the Dominican Sisters of Stone (Gloucestershire, England – North Adelaide, Australia)
• Honoria Conway (rel. name: Mary Vincent) (1815–1892), Founder of the Sisters of Charity of Saint John (now the Sisters of Charity of the Immaculate Conception) (Kent, England – Massachusetts, United States)
• Henry Edward Manning (1808–1892), Archbishop of Westminster; Cardinal; Member of the Secular Franciscans (Hertfordshire – London, England)
• Augusta Theodosia Drane (rel. name: Frances Raphael) (1823–1894), Professed Religious of the Dominican Sisters of the English Congregation of Saint Catherine of Siena (East London – Staffordshire, England)
• Elizabeth Hayes (rel. name: Mary Ignatius of Jesus) (1823–1894), Founder of the Franciscan Missionary Sisters of the Immaculate Conception (Isle of Guernsey – Rome, Italy)
• Charlotte Montagu Douglas Scott (1811–1895), Married Layperson of the Archdiocese of St Andrews and Edinburgh (Wiltshire – Buckinghamshire, England)
• Catherine Rosamund Fitzgibbon (rel. name: Mary Irene) (1823–1896), Professed Religious of the Sisters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul of New York (London, England – New York, United States)
• Duncan McNab (1820–1896), Priest of the Archdiocese of Melbourne (Argyllshire, Scotland – Victoria, Australia)
• Charles O'Neill (1828–1900), Married Layperson of the Archdiocese of Sydney; Cofounder of the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul (Glasgow, Scotland – Sydney, Australia)^{[14] [15]}
• Herbert Vaughan (1832–1903), Archbishop of Westminster; Cardinal; Founder of St. Joseph's Foreign Mission Society of Mill Hill (Mill Hill Missionaries) (Gloucestershire – Barnet, England)
• Thomas Byles (1870–1912), Priest of the Diocese of Brentwood (Yorkshire, England – aboard RMS Titanic, North Atlantic Ocean)^[16]
• Agnes McLaren (1837–1913), Layperson of the Archdiocese of St. Andrews and Edinburgh (Edinburgh, Scotland – Alpes-Maritimes, France)
• Robert Hugh Benson (1871–1914), Priest of the Archdiocese of Westminster (Berkshire – Greater Manchester, England)^[17]
• Honoria Gaffney (Mary Evangelista) (1853–1920), Professed Religious of the Sisters of Saint Joseph of Peace (Roscommon, Ireland – East Midlands, England)
• John Chapman (1865–1933), Professed Priest of the Benedictines (English Congregation) (Suffolk – Somerset, England)
• Cyril Jarrett (rel. name: Bede) (1881–1934), Professed Priest of the Dominicans (London, England)
• Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936), Married Layperson of the Diocese of Northampton (London – Buckinghamshire, England)^{[18] [19]}
• Robert John Cairns (1884–1941), Priest of the Maryknoll Missionary Society; Martyr (Glasgow, Scotland – Guangdong, China)^[20]
• Edward Charles [Ted] Harris (1905–1942), Professed Priest of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart; Martyr (London, England – East New Britain, Papua New Guinea)^[21]
• Vincent McNabb (1868–1943), Professed Priest of the Dominicans (Portaferry, Northern Ireland – London, United Kingdom)
• John Hawes (1876–1956), Priest of the Diocese of Geraldton and the Archdiocese of Nassau (Richmond, England – Florida, United States)^[22]
• Gerald Vann (1906–1963), Professed Priest of the Dominicans (South East London – Newcastle upon Tyne, England)
• Olive-Marie Bradley (rel. name: Marguerite) (1911–1964), Professed Religious of the Ursuline Sisters of Hasselt; Martyr (Wirral, England – Bas-Uele, Democratic Republic of Congo)^[23]
• Margaret Walker (rel. name: Mary Charles Magdalene) (1881–1966), Founder of the Handmaids of the Holy Child Jesus (Sussex, England – Calabar, Nigeria)^[24]
• Peter Biewer (rel. name: Aelred) (1932–1969), Brother of the Missionaries of Africa (White Fathers); Martyr (Yorkshire, England – Nyamagana, Tanzania)^[25]
• Christopher Dawson (1889–1970), Married Layperson of the Diocese of Plymouth (Devon, England)
• John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892–1973), Married Layperson of the Archdiocese of Birmingham (Free State, South Africa – Dorset, England)^[26]
• Martin Thomas (1932–1977), Professed Priest of the Jesuits; Martyr (London, England – Harare, Zimbabwe)^[27]
• Pauline Wilkinson (rel. name: Mary Joseph) (1917–1977), Professed Religious of the Dominican Missionary Sisters; Martyr (Greater Manchester, England – Harare, Zimbabwe)^[27]
• Desmond Donovan (1927–1978), Professed Priest of the Jesuits (West Yorkshire, England – Mashonaland East, Zimbabwe)^[27]
• Bernard Darke (1925–1979), Professed Priest of the Jesuits; Martyr (Dorset, England – Georgetown, Guyana)^{[28] [29]}
• John Francis McGrath (1919–1980), Priest of the Mill Hill Missionaries; Martyr (Birmingham, England – Mbale, Uganda)^[30]
• Douglas William Main (rel. name: John) (1926–1982), Professed Priest of the Benedictines (Olivetan Congregation) (London, England – Québec, Canada)
• Malcolm Muggeridge (1903–1990) and Kathleen Dobbs Muggeridge (1903–1994), Married Laypersons of the Diocese of Arundel and Brighton (East Sussex, England)
• Sean Devereux (1964–1993), Layperson of the Diocese of Arundel and Brighton; Member of the Salesian Cooperators; Martyr (Surrey, England – Jubbada Hoose, Somalia)^[31]
• Alan Richard Griffiths (rel. name: Swami Dayananda [Bede]) (1906–1993), Professed Priest of the Benedictines (Camaldolese Congregation) (Surrey, England – Tamil Nadu, India)^[32]
• Christopher Mannion (1951–1994), Professed Religious of the Marist Brothers of the Schools; Martyr (North Yorkshire, England – Gisagara, Rwanda)^[33]
• Basil Hume (1923–1999), Archbishop of Westminster; Cardinal (Tyne and Wear – London, England)^[34]
• Eileen Egan (1912–2000), Layperson of the Archdiocese of New York (Wales – New York, United States)^[35]
• Leader Dominic Stirling (1906–2003), Married Layperson of the Archdiocese of Dar-es-Salaam (Essex, England – Dar es Salaam, Tanzania)
• Mary Sunniva Garson (1921–2007), Founder of the Sisters of Our Lady of Grace and Compassion (Aberdeenshire, Scotland – Sussex, England)^[36]
• Brian Hilary Thorp (1931–2008), Brother of the Mill Hill Missionaries; Martyr (Derbyshire, England – Lamu, Kenya)^[37]
• Peter Geach (1916–2013) and Gertrude E. M. Anscombe Geach (1919–2001), Married Laypersons of the Diocese of East Anglia (Cambridge, England)
• Clare Crockett (rel. name: Clare Maria of the Trinity and the Heart of Mary) (1982–2016), Professed Religious of the Servant Sisters of the Home of the Mother (Derry, Northern Ireland – Playa Prieta, Ecuador)^[38]
• Edward Daly (1933–2016), Bishop of Derry (Donegal, Ireland – Derry, Northern Ireland)
• Michelle Frieda Totah (rel. name: Mary David) (1957–2017), Professed Religious of the Benedictine Nuns (Philadelphia, United States – Isle of Wight, England)
• Pedro Ballester Arenas (1996–2018), Young Layperson of the Personal Prelature of the Holy Cross and Opus Dei (Manchester, England)^[39]
• Peter Reilly (1915–2018), Married Layperson of the Diocese of Galloway (Ayrshire, Scotland)
• Paul McAuley (1947–2019), Professed Religious of the Brothers of the Christian Schools (De La Salle Brothers); Martyr (Hampshire, England – Loreto, Peru)^[40]
• Michael Strode (1923–2019), Oblate of the Trappists (Surrey, England – Cardiff, Wales)^[41]
• Audrey Donnithorne (1922–2020), Layperson of the Diocese of Hong Kong (China)
• Ryan Stawaisz (1989–2021), Priest of the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston (Aberdeen, Scotland – Texas, United States)^[42]
• David Amess (1952–2021), Married Layperson of the Diocese of Brentwood (London – Essex, England)^[43]
• Janet Longton Tempest (1930–2021), Married Layperson of the Diocese of Leeds (Buenos Aires, Argentina – Yorkshire, England)^[44]
• Indi Gregory (‭† 2023), Child of the Diocese of Nottingham (Nottingham, England)^{[45] [46]}

See also

• List of Catholic martyrs of the English Reformation
• List of post-reformation saints in Ireland
• List of American candidates for sainthood
• List of Canadian Catholic saints and beatified people
• List of Scandinavian saints

Notes and References

1. Web site: The forgotten canonisation Cause of King James II. 5 March 2019. Catholic Herald. Charles Coulombe.
2. Web site: A Lost Cause: Could the Last Catholic King of England Become a Saint?. uCatholic. 26 November 2019. George Ryan.
3. https://mrschisholm.com/ Mrs Chisholm – The Emigrant's Friend and Servant of God
4. Web site: Roma: Fra Antonio MANSI sulla via della Beatificazione. 11 March 2019. ofmconv.net.
5. Web site: Beatification Cause Opens for French Mystic of the Eucharist in England. 27 December 2016. Brian O'Neel. National Catholic Register.
6. Web site: Malaysian diocese opens beatification cause for war hero Sybil Kathigasu. 5 July 2024. 10 July 2024. Radio Veritas Asia. Luke Godoy.
7. Web site: British nuns who saved wartime Jews on path to sainthood. 2 June 2010. Jerome Taylor. The Independent.
8. Web site: Cause opens for beatification of British missionary. Simon Caldwell. 31 July 2019. The Tablet.
9. Web site: Morris . Keith . Centenary Mass marks start of Cause for sainthood of Leonard Cheshire . Independent Catholic News.
10. Web site: "Hero of the skateboard" cause for canonization is steps away from starting. 6 September 2022. Rome Reports.
11. Web site: Father Andrew White. 25 September 2018. CatholicSaints.Info.
12. Web site: Power of prayer works for vocations. 24 April 2023. Catholic Review. George Matysek Jr..
13. Web site: Our Story The Sisters of The Good Samaritan. goodsams.org. 15 March 2023.
14. Web site: More Australian saints on their way. 4 July 2019. mnnews.today.
15. Web site: Charles Gordon O’Neill – a remarkable life by Bishop Anthony Randazzo. catholicoutlook.org. 28 November 2017.
16. Web site: Priest who died on the Titanic could be on path to sainthood. 22 December 2015. Catholic News Agency.
17. Web site: Monsignor Robert Hugh Benson. Santi e Beati. 23 April 2009.
18. Web site: GK Chesterton's sainthood cause may soon be opened. 29 May 2018. Catholic News Agency. Perry West.
19. Web site: Chesterton sainthood cause will not advance, Bishop Doyle says. 2 August 2019. Catholic News Agency.
20. Web site: Maryknoll Mission Archives – Father Robert J. Cairns, MM. maryknollmissionarchives.org.
21. Web site: Missionary Martyrs in Papua New Guinea. Hagiography Circle.
22. Web site: Process to investigate possibility of sainthood for Monsignor Hawes commences. 22 April 2022. geraldtondiocese.org.au.
23. Web site: Missionary Martyrs in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
24. Web site: Life of Mother Mary Charles Magdalen Walker. hhcj.org.
25. Web site: Missionary Martyrs in Tanzania. Hagiography Circle.
26. Web site: Could J.R.R. Tolkien ever be canonized a saint?. 6 September 2022. Philip Kosloski. Aleteia.
27. Web site: Missionary Martyrs in Zimbabwe. Hagiography Circle.
28. Web site: Jesuits remember priest murdered in Guyana. 13 July 2009. Independent Catholic News.
29. Web site: Missionary Martyr in Guyana. Hagiography Circle.
30. Web site: Missionary Martyrs in Uganda. Hagiography Circle.
31. Web site: Missionary Martyrs in Somalia. Hagiography Circle.
32. Web site: Other Catholic Models. Hagiography Circle.
33. Web site: Missionary Martyrs in Rwanda. Hagiography Circle.
34. Web site: Calls to make Cardinal Hume a saint. 1 December 2003. The Northern Echo.
35. https://www.wearesaltandlight.org/blog/2016/11/01/st-mother-teresa-eileen-egan-and-holy-friendship St. Mother Teresa, Eileen Egan and Holy Friendship we are salt and light, 1 November 2016
36. Web site: Our Story – Grace and Compassion Benedictines. graceandcompassionbenedictines.org.uk.
37. Web site: Missionary Martyrs in Kenya. Hagiography Circle.
38. Web site: Renewed calls for Derry nun Sister Clare Crockett, who died in an earthquake four years ago today, to be declared a saint . derrynow.com . Marianne . Flood.
39. Web site: Pedro's Story. pedroballester.org.uk.
40. Web site: Fratel Paul McAuley. Santi e Beati. 24 March 2023.
41. Web site: Campaign begins to recognise Brother Michael Strode, monk who founded the HCPT, as a ‘modern-day saint’. 29 November 2021. Catholic Herald. Simon Caldwell.
42. https://pophouston.org/memorials/father-ryan Remembering Father Ryan
43. Web site: Southend man campaigns for Sir David Amess to be made a saint. 14 October 2022. Southend Echo. Lewis Berrill.
44. Web site: 'Remarkable' Janet Tempest of Broughton Hall dies on Christmas Day aged 91. 31 December 2021. Craven Herald.
45. Web site: Bishops of England and Wales deeply saddened by death of Indi Gregory. November 13, 2023. Vatican News.
46. Web site: Pope thanks God for ‘all-too-short’ life of Indi Gregory. December 1, 2023. The Tablet.